Nevada County picayune., 1887-11-23
AGITATING AND ORGANIZING

AGITATING AND ORGANIZING
 in demonstrations" anl "experi- mcnts" Their speeches and arti- cles fair bristled with impassion- ed appeals for the laboring people to provide themselves with fire arms and dynamite. Specific in- structions were given how to han de and use the explosive, aud how to make bombs and how to pro- cure weapons. All this was stat ed by the cOnspirators to be mak- ing ready for the coming "sociaI revolution ; What was meant by "social revolution' was not left to be vaguely inferred. nor was the time when 1t was to be inaugural ed dim uncertainty of the future. The revolution" was frequently defined in speech and writing as sudden, bloody, forcible upheaval of the right of private ownership of property, then the bringing about state of society ill which all property should be held in con- moiI
 Incredible as it may seem, the avOwed purpose was
 TO DEUCE THE CITY IN BLOOD of the property owning classes, first destroying the police and mi ltia, who were derided as their special champions. The period of confusion developing from the mammoth strikes of the first of May, lSS6, was definitely announce ed.months before as the time when the fearful bolt should fall. Pitt less as was the programme and diff l fcult as a belief Is that 1t ever was contemplated by men, the facts as stated were abundantly proven in court.
 The diabolism was fully shared in by women. Especially so was this the c"se iu the
 FANTASTIC PUBLIC DEMONsTRA-
 TONS,
 like the red d-tiag processions of rasamutiins with torches that at tempted at night 10 enter the mag niticeut new Board of Trade when the dedlcation festivities of the in- stitution had tor the time being transformed the huge building in- | to a scene of social brilliance with out local precedent. The repul- sive, blaspheming intruders of both sexes were sternly forced back at the muzzle of three dozen police revolvers. In affairs like this the dusky wife of Parsons and other no less desperate women seemed in their proper element.- Of the many other queer outbreaks preceding the Haymarket tragedy, the most startling at the time, per haps, was the parade Thauksgiv- iug Day, when in ridicule of Presi- dent Cleyeland's proclamation nearly thousand uucouth men and women of the slumS, headed by banners of black and red, trav- ersed the choice residence avenues wildly yelling and scoffing at the we'll dressed people who crowded to the windows, anxious to learn the cause of the tumult.
 Next day, May 1, the eight-hour strikes began ill earnest, and by nighttall, when the first intelligent estimates were obtalnable, 30, ,O00 men walked the streets idle Promptly in the morning, Sunday, when the churches throughout the city were resounding with swelling hosannas, the stuffy little Bohemi- all Hall on Emma Street was crowded with members of
 THE LEHR AND--wEHR vEREIN, an inner circle of the omnipresent International Detailed plans for the near-at-hand conflict with the police were submitted by Editor Engel and listened to by Spies and Fischer. These plans were the ones almost followed to the letter at the Haymarket, but the decls- ion to do so was not reached at this meeting. Instead, it was de termined to take action at another gathering of the Lehr aud Wehr m a larger hall and more central loca- ton, to be assembled within twen- ty.four hours. This was to be in Grie's hall, Monday night, May 5.
 The Arbeiter Zei,ung, of which Spies and Schwab were the edi- tors and managers, called together the armed men who were to en- gage in this